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681PlathBellJar Plath,Sylvia.1971 First American Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. BY POET SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. VERY GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States SBN 06-013356-2 on the back… Read more

121HammettFalcon. Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon ISBN 9780307291981. Alfred A. Knopf 1st Impression Thus, copyright renewed 1956, 1957 by Dashiell Hammett. As New. A modern classic featuring the First Edition cover design. 217 pages. 6 ¼ X 9 3/8. $38.95

087FitzgeraldTender Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright page states 1933, 1934. UNDATED, Circa 1951. $4.50 unclipped dust jacket. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's Dust Jacket. 315 pages. Revised edition? Ca 1951 or 1952. Black boards with gilt titling on spine. EXTREMELY RARE… Read more

119DouglasHonesty Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In… Read more

112ChristiePoirotCases Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie. Poirot's Early Cases. Ulverscroft December 1990 First Large-Print Edition. Short story Anthology. Complete and unabridged. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ½ X 8 ¾. 470 pages. Summary: In this collection of eighteen stories Hercule Poirot begins his celebrated career in crime. Includes The Double Clue, The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley, and… Read more

108KiplingPRackham Kipling, Rudyard. Puck Of Pook's Hill. Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co, FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. STATES OCTOBER, 1906. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Used – VG/ No dj included if originally issued. Gilt topstain. 277 pages, deckle-edge. 5 ½ 8 ¼. Nice First Printing of the First American Edition, published two months prior to the… Read more

101JamesSquare James, Henry, Jr. Washington Square Copyright 1922, Harper & Brothers reprint edition. (This story was also produced as a film called "the Heiress". Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naive daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her… Read more

134EngleCapnKid Engle, Joanna Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. QUITE RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

140 DoyleCasebook Doyle, A. Conan The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus. published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Some tanning as is typical of this edition.… Read more

064MacDuffOlivet MacDuff, J.R. Memories of Olivet. Tales of the Garden of Gethsemane. RARE ANTIQARIAN TITLE. BIBLE. HISTORY. CHRISTIANITY. RELIGION. Illustrated. RARE. 1868 first edition Published by James Nisbit And Co. Apparently Quite Rare. 5 1/8 X 8. 373 pages plus adverts. Gilt tilting and ornamentation is present remains fairly bright, including spine. Some underlining noted toward end of the text. Used.… Read more

086DuMaurier1937 Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at… Read more

085DuMaurier1stfaxdj Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly.… Read more

081DoyleMicah Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Micah Clarke. Harper & Brothers First American Edition, Copyright 1894. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. A square, solid copy. Bright pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth, engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Gilted front cover and spine ornamentation are still in nice shape. Former owner signature on front free endpaper dates our… Read more

052FringuelloMouse Fringuello, Judith. Tale of the Christmas Mouse. 1970 Troll Associates. Softcover. Stapled binding. Used. Very Good Condition. Unpaginated 6 x 6. $24.95. For young readers. Keywords, Collectible, Troll Associates, Christmas, Yule, Holidays, Mice, Animalia, Santa Claus, Wintertime, Christmas Tree, Holidays. RARE.

050Coombs, Patricia. The Magic Pot. 1977. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Edition. Number line starts with 2. VG/ No Dust Jacket included. Used. Library-Bound. Unpaginated. ISBN0688517927. Summary: A demon, in the guise of a magic pot, outwits a greedy rich man and brings wealth and happiness to a poor fellow and his wife. 6 ¾… Read more

749ChristieStyles Christie, Agatha. Reprint. 2012 Mud Puddle. ISBN 9781603113915. Fine condition. Summary: "Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to… Read more

048Arliss, George. Up The Years From Bloomsbury. 1927, Blue Ribbon Books Edition AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ Included. Our copy has a dime-sized water spot on the front cover. ABOUT THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP, or Bloomsbury Set: a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard… Read more

Konigsburg, E.L. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. 1967 ANTHENEUM Stated First Printing Thus. Written and Illustrated by E.L. Konigsburg. NEWBERY AWARD WINNER. Pictorial Metropolitan Museum of Art white boards with red and yellow titling. EXLIB. Good Condition/No dust jacket is included with your purchase. Book: 162 pages. Pale yellow topstain. Light yellow spine is blank with… Read more

076 McCloskey, Robert. MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. Two… Read more

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama… Read more